Evolution is a gradual process. It takes time and mistakes. It’s been useful for animals and plants because we’ve had billions of years.
Evolution in a business is not so useful because we don’t have unlimited time.
Evolution is reactionary.
Innovation drives step changes.
Innovation requires courage because it means active culling.
Innovation is proactive.
The question is whether you want to drive or be driven?
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.